Ring-dinge-ding, or Ring-dinge for short as it stands the Eurovision official website, was the Dutch entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967 in Vienna, performed by Thérèse Steinmetz.
The song is an up-tempo number, with Steinmetz singing about the sheer joy she feels on certain occasions - describing a series of outlanding activities she wishes to engage in. She explains that when she feels this way, it is a "Ring ding-a-ding-a-ding day".
The song was performed first on the night, preceding Luxembourg. At the close of voting, it finished in 14th place. The 2 points came from the United Kingdom and Ireland, the same countries who gave the same marks to the Netherlands in 1966. This was the first and only time when that happened i.e. the same countries give the same country same and final marks two years in a row.
Lyrics[]
Dit wordt een
Ring-dinge-dinge-ding, ring-dinge-dinge-ding
Ring-dinge-dinge-ding, ringe-ding dag
Ring-dinge-dinge-ding, ring-dinge-dinge-ding
Ring-dinge-dinge-ding dag
Als ik zin heb om hardop te zingen
Door het huis en de straten te springen
Als een straatmuzikant, heel elegant
Voor me buigt met z’n hoed in de hand
Als ik ‘s morgens al wodka wil drinken
En spontaan met de bakker wil klinken
Nou, dan is het geen vraag:
Dit wordt vandaag weer een dag zonder één dissonant
Dit wordt een
Ring-dinge-dinge-ding, ring-dinge-dinge-ding
Ring-dinge-dinge-ding, ringe-ding dag
Ring-dinge-dinge-ding, ring-dinge-dinge-ding
Ring-dinge-dinge-ding dag
Als ik lach om een hand vol met nieten
En de haan van de toren wil schieten
Met een waterkanon, in een ballon
Door de lucht zweef en stoei met de zon
Als ik voel dat ik uren kan feesten
En het minste verruil voor het meeste
Nou, dan is het geen vraag
Ik doe vandaag weer een bod op een groot carillon
Dit wordt een
Ring-dinge-dinge-ding, ring-dinge-dinge-ding
Ring-dinge-dinge-ding, ringe-ding dag
Ring-dinge-dinge-ding, ring-dinge-dinge-ding
Ring-dinge-dinge-ding dag
Als ik straks een minister ga bellen
Om de mop van de dag te vertellen
Als ik dans, als ik zwaai, vraag om lawaai
Nou, dan heb ik vandaag weer m’n draai
Als ik ‘s avonds een beatband wil huren
Voor een plechtig diner met de buren
Als dan iedereen lacht, zeg ik vannacht:
“Deze dag was weer eindeloos fraai”
Dit was een
Ring-dinge-dinge-ding, ring-dinge-dinge-ding
Ring-dinge-dinge-ding, ringe-ding dag
Ring-dinge-dinge-ding, ring-dinge-dinge-ding
Ring-dinge-dinge-ding dag
Dit was een
Ring-dinge-dinge-ding, ring-dinge-dinge-ding
Ring-dinge-dinge-ding, dinge-ding dag
Ring-dinge-dinge-ding, ring-dinge-dinge-ding
Ring-dinge-dinge-ding dag
Ring-dinge-dinge-ding dag
Ring-dinge-dinge-ding, ring-dinge-dinge-ding
Ring-dinge-dinge-ding dag
This will be a
Ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding, ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding
Ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding, ring-a-ding day
Ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding, ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding
Ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding day
When I feel like singing out loud
Jumping through the house and the streets
When a street musician, very elegantly
Bows to me with hat in hand
When I feel like drinking vodka in the morning
And clinking spontaneously with the baker
Well, then it’s no question:
Today will be again a day without one dissonance
This will be a
Ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding, ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding
Ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding, ring-a-ding day
Ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding, ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding
Ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding day
When I laugh about a hand full of blanks
And when I want to shoot the weathercock off the tower
With a water cannon, in a balloon
When I float through the air and frolick with the sun
When I feel that I can party for hours
And exchange the less for the most
Now, then it’s no question
Today I make a bid for a big carillon
This will be a
Ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding, ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding
Ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding, ring-a-ding day
Ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding, ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding
Ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding day
When I’m going to call a minister
To tell the joke of the day
When I dance, when I swing, ask for noise
Well, then I found my niche
When I want to hire a beat group for the evening
For a solemn dinner with the neighbours
When everyone laughs then, I’ll say tonight:
“This day was again endlessly fine”
This was a
Ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding, ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding
Ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding, ring-a-ding day
Ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding, ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding
Ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding day
This was a
Ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding, ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding
Ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding, ding-a-ding day
Ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding, ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding
Ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding day
Ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding day
Ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding, ring-ding-a-ding-a-ding
Ring ding-a-ding-a-ding day
| Eurovision Song Contest 1967 | |||
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| Participants | |||
 Thérèse Steinmetz •  Vicky Leandros •  Peter Horton •  Noëlle Cordier •  Eduardo Nascimento •  Géraldine Gaulier •  Östen Warnerbring •  Fredi •  Inge Brück •  Louis Neefs •  Sandie Shaw •  Raphael •  Kirsti Sparboe •  Minouche Barelli •  Lado Leskovar •  Claudio Villa •  Sean Dunphy
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| Songs | |||
| Ring-dinge-ding • L'amour est bleu • Warum es hunderttausend Sterne gibt • Il doit faire beau là-bas • O vento mudou • Quel cœur vas-tu briser? • Som en dröm • Varjoon - suojaan • Anouschka • Ik heb zorgen • Puppet on a String • Hablemos del amor • Dukkemann • Boum Badaboum • Vse rože sveta • Non andare più lontano • If I Could Choose
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